F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

[Miloslav Trmač]

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:34:22 -0500 (EST)
> Miloslav Trmač <mitr at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:54:09 +0000 (UTC)
> > > P J P <pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > > > I'd request all(those who are opposing) too describe their
> > > > requirements in the etherpad page above.
> > > 
> > > Being able to authenticate as root right after installation would be
> > > the requirement for me.
> > 
> > Let’s be precise here; “able to authenticate as root” is an
> > implementation detail; the underlying requirement is something else.
> > “Able to set up IPA”?  “Able to run administrative commands in
> > shell?” (e.g. we could just, as a part of firstboot, open a root
> > shell without any authentication ☺ ). Mirek
> 
> except that will not work when you do not have access to a console and
> only have ssh access

At this point/in this sub-discussion, I personally very much don’t care.  Let’s collect the requirements first.
    Mirek